Apple MacBook Pro 15.4" Retina - Winter 2013

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26

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14

Average:

2

Bad:

1

The MacBook Pro 15-inch is fitted with Intel's quad-core Crystalwell processor (a variant of Haswell) that adds Iris Pro graphics and 128MB of eDRAM on-package. There are two versions, one with no discrete graphics and a second one with a GeForce GT 750M with 2GB of RAM. The MacBook Pro Retina also features a PCI-e based flash storage and OS X Mavericks.

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